How Do You Monitor an AI Pipeline That Runs Without You?

Plenty of engineering teams now run pipelines where AI agents pick up a ticket, write the code, review it, test it and open the pull request, with a person involved…

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The Last Human Before Production

Suppose you spend a Tuesday morning deciding what a refund is. Whether the clock starts when you dispatch it or when the customer signs for it, what a partial return…

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Can Your AI Agent Edit the Tests That Check It?

Building software has always been a sequence of jobs. Work out what it should do, write it, check that it works, release it. Hand each of those jobs to an…

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Where Does Your Dark Factory Stop?

At FANUC's plant near Mount Fuji, robots build other robots for weeks at a time with nobody on the floor. The part worth copying is duller than the robots: every…

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The Software Factory You Didn’t Notice You’d Built

Sensible automations, each gated on its own, add up to a production line no one designed. Every automated loop in your delivery pipeline was reviewed, gated and argued over before…

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When the Loop Rewrites Its Own Prompt, What Are You Approving?

"The end of manual prompt engineering" is the headline on GEPA. That is true for the job it is being sold to do, but GEPA is doing something else as…

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Why the Simplest AI Agent Loop Beats a Sophisticated One

An AI agent is only as trustworthy as the check on its work. The loop that runs it barely matters. If you follow AI engineering at all, you have probably…

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Big Tech Says Human-in-the-Loop Fails. It’s Right, and Missing the Point.

The fixes the industry is reaching for relocate the problem. The harder question is what the human in the loop was holding. "Humans are not terribly consistent." That was Amazon's…

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AI Supply Chain Security Is a Provenance Problem, Not a Vetting Problem

In May last year, someone opened a public GitHub repository and filed an issue. The issue contained instructions written for the AI assistant the repository's owner had connected to their…

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From Human Supervision to Policy Governance

Supervision has latency. A human watching an AI system needs time to observe what happened, recognise that something is wrong, decide what to do and then act. That sequence takes…

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